Pack life insures the care and feeding of the young, and allows wolves to defend their common territory.
Like many human beings, wolves live in extended families which are called packs. A hierarchical order exists within the pack every animal knows its place in that order. Wolves live in packs – groups of animals that are usually related by close blood ties (family units). Because of the ways in which wolves have evolved and the special demands of their way of life, wolves have become one of the most highly social of all carnivores.
